On Wednesday, petulant leftist high school students in select cities across the United States walked out of school to demand lawmakers infringe on their fellow Americans' Second Amendment rights in the juvenile belief that this infringement would somehow keep schools safe from deranged people wanting to commit mass murder. Naturally, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News were more than happy to champion their cause and hype their truancy for at the behest of the left's anti-American gun-grabbing agenda.
CBS Evening News anchor Norah O'Donnell started by reporting how "the final funeral was held this afternoon for the victims of last week's Covenant school shooting in Nashville" and that "it took place as students across the nation walked out of their classes to demand action against gun violence."
Taking over for O'Donnell, correspondent Mark Strassmann hyped how widespread the protests were in "Seattle. Charlotte. Boston. Coast-to-coast outrage about gun violence. High schoolers staged a noon walkout in protest. Including in Uvalde, Texas, where a school gunman last year massacred 19 children and two adults."
Later on, in Strassmann's report, he noted how "three Democratic state lawmakers hijacked a legislative session using a bullhorn to demand gun restrictions." He then bemoaned how "the Republican majority was furious and could hold a vote tomorrow, whether to oust those three lawmakers."
Meanwhile, on NBC Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt acted as a stenographer for the gun control activists by breathlessly reporting how "across the country, today students walked out of their classrooms by the thousands demanding that officials and politicians do more to stop gun violence."
Holt added that some of the students were apparently "saying they didn’t want to live in fear in their schools."
Maybe if members of the media like Holt would report on these shootings responsibly and add context, like the fact that high school students have a better chance of dying in the car on the way to school than dying in their classroom, these students wouldn't be living in fear.
This gun control advocacy by CBS & NBC was made possible by Chewy on CBS, and Liberty Mutual on NBC. Their information is linked.
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CBS Evening News
4/5/2023
6:42:24 p.m. EasternNORAH O’DONNELL: The final funeral was held this afternoon for the victims of last week's Covenant school shooting in Nashville. CBS's Mark Strassmann reports it took place as students across the nation walked out of their classes to demand action against gun violence.
MARK STRASSMANN: Seattle. Charlotte. Boston. Coast-to-coast outrage about gun violence. High schoolers staged a noon walkout in protest. Including in Uvalde, Texas, where a school gunman last year massacred 19 children and two adults.
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STRASSMANN: More fallout from the shooting. Last week, three Democratic state lawmakers hijacked a legislative session using a bullhorn to demand gun restrictions. The Republican majority was furious and could hold a vote tomorrow, whether to oust those three lawmakers.
NBC Nightly News
4/5/2023
6:37:42 p.m. EasternLESTER HOLT: Across the country, today students walked out of their classrooms by the thousands demanding that officials and politicians do more to stop gun violence. Some saying they didn’t want to live in fear in their schools. The action came nine days after the school shooting in Nashville that killed three children and three adults and a wave of school shootings in recent years.
